Reading List
Abolish Oil
Places Journal
What must be abolished so that democracy may finally rise? Oil — as an industry and as a form of social organization.
Urban Auscultation
Places Journal
The mechanical operations of a transit system, the social life of a public library, the overload of hospital emergency rooms: all can be intoned through algorhythmic analysis.
Liquid Cities
Places Journal
In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.”
Design and the Green New Deal
Places Journal
If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline.
Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning
Places Journal
An urban historian assesses the complex legacy of Jane Jacobs, including the rise of community activism and the marginalization of professional planning.